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The Third Time is a Charm	By : ladyedgecombe Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 45346 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I don’t own the HP Universe. I admire. Rowling for entertaining us with her world of make believe. I don’t make any money from writing this story, I just like to have fun and borrow her characters for a while but I promise to put them back

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The Third Time is a Charm

Summary:

A child was born to return the pureblood ways of long ago, what would you do to save him? His inheritance stolen and his friends are traitors who can he turn to? Strangers appear - friend or foe? Warn-language, child abuse, M/M SS/HP AD/RW/HG bashing

Explicit sex scenes, Severus will be OOC and a host of other characters.

Disclaimer: I do not own or have interest in any of the Harry Potter universe. I admire J. K. Rowling for entertaining us with her world of make believe. I do not make any money from writing this story, I just like to have fun and borrow her characters for a while.

Chapter 5: Drastic Measures

As always, the closer you got toward the Slytherin dungeons the cooler the hallway was. It was no wonder they were better at warming charms than the rest of the school. They needed them when living in the dorms and staying in the common rooms. The charms needed to be refreshed every now and then, but Harry did not want to bring attention to himself by throwing a few charms, especially when he was invisible.

Finally, Harry came to the painting of a Burmese python snake with its cream colored underbelly and strange pattern of black and brown spots coiled around a tree and he hissed at it with his special password. Severus and he came up with it to make sure no one else could overhear it and get into Severus' private quarters. This way the portrait did not have to see Harry to let him in. He then briefly knocked on the door frame to let Severus know that he was coming in. Severus was sitting in his favorite chair when Harry slowly came through the portrait doorway and walked over to stand in front of the older man and then took off his cloak so Severus could see him.

"Hi," Harry said feeling a little down because of all the things he found out that evening.

"Hello yourself, did something else happen?" Severus could see the expression on Harry's face and he just didn't seem to be his usual optimistic self. Of course, Severus reminded himself wryly, he had plenty of reasons not to be.

"I heard Ron and Hermione talking. Ginny attacked me on Dumbledore's orders so she could feed me a love potion." Harry looked so lost and disappointed. Of course with those 'friends' of his, it was expected.

"Love potion? Where were they going to get a love potion? I suppose the insufferable know-it-all could brew one, but I wouldn't trust the other two to do that. It could be very dangerous."

Severus didn't let it show but he was angry, very angry. The repercussions of this could harm Harry for life and no one should be using love potions. In his opinion it bordered on dark magic. He didn't even want to think about what something like that could do to their recently discovered bond or how it could destroy the bond. In destroying the bond it could also destroy them. Severus pulled his soul mate into his lap and put a strong protective arm around him.

"I know, Sev, I am wondering if I can really come back to school next year." Harry covered his face with his hands in despair and starting ranting. "I don't know how I am supposed to learn anything with all this going on." Harry stood up and started to pace furiously in front of Severus. "What am I going to do if someone decides to poison me? How can I eat anything at the Great Hall if people are going to put something in my food? Maybe I could just find somewhere else to live or go to a different school, but you know Dumbledore will never let me do that. Why does that man have to meddle in my... my life so much?" The teenager's voice cracked towards the end of the rant and Severus got up from the chair and put his arms around Harry.
"I know its distressing Harry but we will find a way out of this. We just need to think clearly. Have you eaten yet?"

"No. I was coming down to dinner when Ginny attacked me and with all the other stuff going on, I haven't had a chance. To be honest, I don't know if I could stomach anything." Harry leaned against Severus and sighed. "If only the world would leave us alone. Maybe we could find a house and hide for the next fifty years. That would be nice." Harry's expression twisted angrily.

"Harry, just sit here for a few minutes under your cloak while I go and order some tea from the kitchens. I don't want to let the elves know you are here or to tell them that tea is for you. We have to be very careful right now." Severus sat Harry down in his favorite chair, went to his bedroom and flung some floo powder in the fireplace to order tea. Soon a house elf arrived with a tray of biscuits, tea and sandwiches and set the tray on the bedside stand and popped out when Severus dismissed him. Severus then brought the tray into the sitting room to where Harry was draped over the chair staring into space. He was so preoccupied with his thoughts that he didn't see Severus walk into the room.

"Harry?" no answer, "Harry?" still no answer. Severus reached a hand out to remove the cloak praying that the young man was still in the chair. "Harry!"

"Huh?" Harry was startled and jerked his head up.

"What are you thinking about and so seriously at that?" Severus asked wondering what in the world could have Harry so preoccupied.

"I think I have come up with something that may help. Let me eat first and I will explain it." Severus raised one eyebrow, a classic move of his in letting Harry know he wanted answers and was waiting.

"This from the young man that wasn't sure he wanted to eat?"

"Plans change. Things will work out or not, my life is so fucked up that I can't really say that I should be surprised about the latest events. I was blindsided once more and I will not let that happen again."

Harry grabbed a sandwich from the tray and, with a smile on his face, started eating. Severus sat and watched him, he loved the way Harry always ate slow and enjoyed his food, although he now knew that it came from his relatives not feeding him properly and then him learning he didn't have to gulp his food down before it was taken from him again. Severus really hated those muggles. Once again he was reminded that he needed to get the young man out of there.

Harry snatched a pumpkin pastie from the tray and started to savor one of his favorite treats. Then he turned a worried looking face back to the professor wondering why the elves served something that was not usually on the older man's diet. Severus didn't usually eat sweets and the elves were not in the habit of serving them to him. Did they know he was here after all and who else was reporting his whereabouts to the manipulative old coot. He would have to be more careful, people were trying to serve him love potions and who knew what else. He focused his attention back to the pastry in his hand and asked, "Severus, do you usually eat these? Why did the elves put this on the platter?"

"I told them that I was expecting a guest and needed some of the pastries from dinner. This was on the menu, don't worry Harry, I already tested the food before I brought the tray in here with a spell that reveals any potions or spells on the food."

Harry smiled at that, eyes sparkling with humor and relief saying, "Always taking care of me, huh, Sev?"

"I try, Harry, I try. You do present a challenge though." The older man smirked at him with a hint of affection on his stern face.

Harry finished his treat and settled down in the chair with his tea. He had a plan, sort of, but didn't know how to approach the subject with Severus. Well, was he a Gryffindor or wasn't he.

"Severus, if we were already bonded what would the love potion do? Would I be able to fight it?"

"Harry, although very little is known about the bond between soul mates, I can tell you that we would share powers, feelings and in some cases it has been said that you can also share thoughts." Severus went into teaching mode with a closed expression on his face. The one that said he was concentrating and for Harry to just listen and ask questions later. "The soul mate bonding is the most sacred of all bonds and involves the mating of the two. If the mating is between two inexperienced parties, the bond is strong immediately. If the mating is between one experienced and one inexperienced partner the bond can be even stronger as the experienced partner knows how to please and protect the submissive partner. If the bond is between two experienced partners, the bond will be slower to come to fullness knowing that they are more independent and will block out needs to the partner. This sometimes retards the making of the bond and often will delay complete bonding for months or even a few years. This is why I have been telling Albus for years that we need to have sex education classes. With so many muggleborns attending Hogwarts, it really makes it hard on those that would be soul mates. It is a very powerful thing and should be preserved." Severus paused in his litany of information about bonds. He then focused on Harry "Why do you want to know all this?"

Harry, sitting there trying not to be nervous, suddenly blurted out, "Iwantustobond"

"Harry take a deep breath, calm down and repeat what you just said, slower this time so I can understand you." Severus's obsidian gaze was shining with amusement. Harry breathed deeply a few times before repeating what he said, he was so nervous that his palms were sweating and his heart was racing; he closed his eyes trying to calm down his breathing and his nerves.

"I want us to bond," he said slowly anxiously watching for Severus's reaction.

"We will bond eventually, Harry, it's what soul mates do. But we need to spend more time together and you need to be a little older." Severus looked lovingly toward Harry and the past worries flitted through his mind again. Harry was too young, he could find someone better and he didn't need an old ex-death eater like him. "Did you have a date in mind?"

"Um, yeah, tonight" he said hesitantly, not really able to meet Severus's eyes at the moment. His heart pounding again and his green eyes full of hope and fear. Hope that Severus would agree to this and fear that he would not. Right now the fear was taking over in his heart and he so desperately wanted his mate to desire him and to be with him.

"What?! What possible reason could you have for bonding right now when you are only fifteen years old? I was thinking we would do this sometime after you graduate." Severus could not believe what Harry was saying. It was too soon and he could not possibly know he wanted to be tied to him for the rest of his life. Bond or no bond, Harry just was not old enough to make these kinds of decisions. Bond tonight, what was the boy thinking?

"But that's a little over two years from now. I don't want to wait that long."

"Harry, is this about the love potion that the Weasley chit is trying to shove down your throat?" The older man's dark eyes were shadowed and there was a glint of disappointment mixed in with a little anger.

"No, this is more than that. First, the love potion was more Dumbledore's idea, from what I gathered from the conversations I eavesdropped on, but it is so much more than that. I have to go back to the Dursley's and once again put up with their stupidity. I have a psychotic megalomaniac after me; I have a meddling old fool and a bunch of people who think I am their every answer for money in their pockets, people that want to see me dead, but only after I kill said megalomaniac. I need something, just one thing to keep me going. That one thing is you, Severus. I know that I love you even though I have never said that to anyone before. I have never had feelings like I have for you, and I want to know if you feel the same. I want to experience, just once, what it is like to have someone to just like me for me. I am so tired of being the Boy-Who-Lived, the one who has to defeat Voldemort. Who knows if I am even going to be alive next week? Can you say that you know for sure you will?" Harry pleaded his case with anguish in his eyes and passion in his heart. He wanted Severus to understand what he was saying and at the same time wasn't sure how to express the tidal wave of feelings running through his body.

Harry paused with a heavy sigh and continued, "I can't even begin to tell you how much the Dursleys love to abuse me. I need something good to dream about. Not Sirius falling through the veil, not Cedric getting hit with the killing curse, not Wormtail betraying my parents, not the absence of Remus because he blames me for his friend's demise."

"Harry, just stop, come here." Severus got up, held out his arms and pulled his slighter soul mate into a hug, "None of that was your fault." Severus gently rubbed circles on the young man's back as he firmly held him against his chest.

"I know Sev, but the nightmares are still there and I can't take Dreamless Sleep all the time. It already doesn't work as well as it used to and there is a good chance that I might get addicted if I have too many doses. I am so tired all the time and I need some rest." Even now, he was leaning against Severus as if all his energy had leeched out of his body and he didn't have any reserve energy to continue standing.

"You can stay here tonight, but I am not willing to consummate our bond just yet. You need to be older and sure that this is what you want." Severus desperately hoped Harry would understand and not take this as a rejection. Joining into a soul mate bond was not a decision to be entered into because of outside dangers. The union should be from a loving and mutual appreciation of each other.

"Severus, please just let me sleep with you. We don't have to do anything, but don't send me back into the lion's den tonight. Those people are trying to enslave me. They keep trying to hurt me. I just can't sleep there tonight." As soon as he heard about the love potion, Severus had already decided that his soul mate was absolutely not staying in Gryffindor tower. He was not letting those people hurt his Harry if he could help it.

"All right, Harry, you can sleep here with me tonight. I agree you are not safe in the Gryffindor rooms right now. But we will sleep. I do not want us bonding because of outside pressure when you are not ready." Harry thought he was ready but he could see the determined glint in Severus's eyes and knew not to argue at this point. Besides, he had to admit Severus had a point, he was underage. However, as soon as he turned sixteen, it would not be illegal for him to have a relationship with the older man. He just needed to find a way to convince his mate about the idea.

"Severus, what happens if they manage to feed me a love potion before the bond is in place? It would be so easy to put it in my breakfast or juice." Harry looked like he was going to start panicking again. Severus tried to placate his anxious soul-mate.

"Harry, you must settle down, you just need to get into the habit of testing your food. We both are very tired now but I will show you a simple spell in the morning that will allow you to find out if anything is in your food that should not be there." Severus had his arms around Harry and slowly led him to the bedroom. Actually, if he thought Harry was ready, he would love to bond with the younger man. But he was only fifteen and Severus didn't feel that he was ready. Yes, he knew that many of the students had sex when they were that age, but this was a bonding and not casual sex. It was a life changing decision that Harry needed to think carefully about first.

Severus pulled some sleep pants from the dresser and handed them to the younger man. Harry took one look at them and snorted, "Black, I should have known."

"Did you want another color?" A dark brow rose in question.

Harry with a mischievous glint in his eye said, "Red?"

"Not on your life, there will be no red in this room!" Harry snickered at the look on the older man's face. He really was hypersensitive about color and red especially. It was fun to watch the indignant expression that appeared instantly the word red came out of his mouth.

They got dressed in their respective night clothes and crawled into bed. With Severus's arm around Harry's shoulders and Harry half laying on his mates chest they slowly drifted off into a deep sleep, both snuggled up together with a smile on their faces
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